With its launch, Chandigarh has become the first city in the northern region and third city in country after Pune and Cochin to avail benefits of the project.
With an aim to improve the public delivery system, ASK has been set up for registering all taxpayer applications including tax returns by issuing system-generated acknowledgement numbers for monitoring the movement of documents.
Speaking on the occasion, Durgesh Shanker, Member (Revenue), Central Board of Direct Taxes, New Delhi, said tax administration in India was gearing up to face new challenges by pursuing a “walking on two legs policy”, which simultaneously aims at capacity building within the organisation and reaching out to the taxpayers with people-friendly measures.
A number of e-governance initiatives such as e-filing of returns, e-payment of taxes, centralised processing of returns, online tax accounting systems and refund banker scheme have been taken by the department for making transactions with the department convenient and easier, he added.
“Sevottam is a programme in which we have developed technology to involve citizens.
Under the project, 758 income tax offices across the country are slated to go on-stream in the next few years,” he said.
The Centre’s high-profile project, Sevottam, aims at ensuring transparency in the working of government departments.
The project has been initiated by the Prime Minister’s Office and is fully supported by the Department of Administrative Reforms. The I-T department is one of the 10 departments selected by the Prime Minister for fast-tract implementation of ‘Sevottam’.
The project also emphasises the use of ‘ASK logo’, meant to convey that the department encourages taxpayers to ‘ask’ for fulfillment of promised services.
It was also announced that a refund banker’s scheme for online transmission of information to the bank for crediting a refund is also on the anvil.
I-T Chief Commissioner P K Chopra and Nilimesh Baruah, DIT (Organisation and management Services) also spoke on the occasion. The vote of thanks was given by I-T Commissioner A K Kaushal.
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Quelle/Source: Indian Express, 03.12.2009
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